They also looked at an inscription from Egypt which celebrated the building of a bridge under the auspices of the tyrannical emperor Domitian, and from which all reference to the tyrant had been excised after his brutal assassination. Stalin was certainly not the first man to wipe his opponents from history! We have a variety of reading groups in the Middle School. Year 10 boys have been enjoying the delights of Catullus while boys in Year 11 have taken pleasure in the complex literary challenge of Ovid’s Heroides , the Fasti , and the Metamorphoses . The Lower School Classics Society runs regularly throughout the academic year. It is a great opportunity for boys to discuss those areas of the Classical world which never quite get enough space
in lessons, both with their teacher and with older boys. This year we have established the top ten monsters of the ancient world. ‘Your teachers can tell you how good a university subject Classics is, but seeing the university and hearing lecturers at Cambridge really made me want to study it.’ Toby Redington, Year 12 The Classics Society has enjoyed some excellent lectures this year by Dr Claire Holleran (Exeter) on ‘Shopping in Ancient Rome’, Dr Sophie Lunn- Rockliffe (King’s College, London) on ‘Demon- hunting in antiquity’ and by Prof Chris Pelling (Oxford) on ‘Cleopatra’.
Teaching Roman mosaics during the eight-day trip to Sicily.
Dr Kathryn Tempest (University of Roehampton) speaking to the Classics Society on Cicero, October 2013.
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